This Taco Bell gets five stars for just existing. I have absolutely no interest in going to Wrigleyville for Taco Bell, and luckily enough, I work really close to this place. The food is always really Taco Bell-y, they're never out of Baja Blast, and I can get in and out within the confines of my paid 15-minute break.
Taco Bell is the best.
I love you, Taco Bell.
The only legitimate complaint I have is that the seats are really weirdly arranged, but it's pretty small in there so I won't hold it against them.
Ok, yes it is Taco Bell.
But Evanston is a college town, and this restaurant is one of the closest, cheapest places to eat for Northwestern students.
I give it an extra star for the Dorrito chip taco - genius!
Oh and love might be in the air there. Years ago, I invited out a girl I liked for a late night snack here. We ended up dating and, much later, getting married!
The lack of cheap fast food in Evanston is a great thing sometimes.
I'm forced to eat out at slightly more expensive, albeit much better, local-owned restaurants.
Sometimes I complain that there aren't dozens and dozens of fast food chains around the area (I'm from California where you can find 10 McDonalds within 10 minutes driving), but coming to Taco Bell keeps me down-to-earth.
Sometimes I really crave a super greasy potato taco or really bad nachos, but usually the food at Taco Bell grosses me out. This is how I'm constantly reminded that Evanston is a great little foodie town and that I shouldn't complain about the dearth of chain restaurants here :)
Smallest Taco Bell in the universe.
I eat here about once a week. Â There is very little room for sitting, and waiting for your food to go is even worse. Â The employees range from pleasant and efficient to mind-bogglingly incompetent. Â It's always a roll of the dice. Â
The food is...well, you know what the food is.
it's Taco Bell.
It's 10pm on a weekday, undecided on food. We're not craving any Chinese food. Might as well go cruise around.
It was a beautiful night, heading north bound on LSD and Sheridan. Welcome to Evanston. It's time for Finals and I see Taco Bell.
Hey, it's been awhile, and the advertisement for Tortada is quite convincing.
The place is a bit crammed, but for fast food it does its thing.
I order, I eat, and I'm full. Time to go back home.
What a good night..
P.S. The salsa Tortada is the same layout as the previous spicy chicken wrap. A wrap and a flat shell in between. It's filled with chicken and salsa and something else.
I like taco bell, but my main issue is the space since on busy days it can get pretty crowded. They need to consider finding a different location downtown and expanding their space more so if it gets busy people are not squashed up against each other and allow a less busy establishment to be in that space. Plus they also need to clean the tables after customers leave I came in on Halloween and several tables were covered in lettuce, cheese and tomatoes and most people were not even eating at the tables they got their food to go. I like how they are open late if you're wanting a quick bite, but they do need to expand out some. They should even consider being open 24 hours since most of their patrons are Northwestern University students and many of them don't have cars to drive to other places in Evanston and it's within walking distance from the dorm. Overall the service was ok and within acceptable standards.
Review Source:I used to have lukewarm feelings about Taco Bell. It was just drunk food, but over time my attitude has evolved (degenerated?) to one of we're-just-friends affection. This is my go-to restaurant when I'm at work and I want to grab something cheap and passably good. I like cheap, and I'm okay with passably good, so I go here pretty often.
The service is acceptable, the food is acceptable, and the prices are so low that I still have problems understanding that I'm getting A LOT of food for less than it would cost to buy a sandwich and a bag of chips at some other places. I'm working on that. Maybe I'll be able to handle the awesome one day.
My major complaint is that the restaurant is far, far too small for the customer volume. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder to get food kind of makes me feel like I'm milling about in a herd of cattle, which makes me wonder if some corporate bigwig somewhere is sitting in a room full of TV screens, laughing evilly at the customers' suffering. "Look at them all! Muahahahahahahaha!"
OK people, let's preface with this- it's still a Taco Bell, and it always will be. Â This rating is for fast food standards, not comparable to a real restaurant.
Now that we've got that out of the way let's talk about this location. Â While I appreciate the extended hours (12pm weekdays, 1am Fri-Sat) I would LOVE if they added a few extra hours like they do in other suburbs, to be open until 3am. Â That would simply make my day, every day.
The downsides to this restaurant are a-typical to Taco Bell- cleanliness is worrisome (I, at most, can attribute one rough night to the food, while others claim to get sick often. YMMV), the food is meh, and there isn't much space to sit down. Â But if you're tasked with the choice between this and Burger King for a late night meal, I'll take Taco Bell 9 times out of 10.
Also, little known trick: If you show your Wildcard, you get a 10% discount (it's as if you're getting tax back!)
I must give kudos to T-Bell's updated and fancy decor. They now have some nifty taco bell paintings and a bright purplish interior. Too bad the service has not been equally updated. I went here in late april for some food. I saw the line of ten people, only to discover that they were all waiting for their food. I decided to go with cinnamon twists.
I order the cinnamon twists, and the bag was half full. I point this out to the dude (because I want my 89 cents worth, and the guy working behind the counter starts yelling at me, saying that this is how full they always are, and that whoever filled them up more in the past for me (at every other taco bell location in the world) was doing it wrong.
I decided to not push this guy any further since he was clearly off his rocker and may have stashed a rifle under the T-Bell counter. I didn't want to stick around to find out. I may go back but only after I peer through the plate glass window to make sure that guy isn't there.
I grew up somewhat poor in Washington State, and as such, I became intimately acquainted with Taco Bell. Â We all know Taco Bell, so I won't wax and wane about the food quality or the service, because this one is just like all the rest in that respect.
What I will say is that this is quite possibly the most run-down and badly planned Taco Bell I've ever experienced! Â Maybe it's because of the corporation's pricing structure not letting making them enough money to get a decent location, but this really is terrible. Â I've never seen my beloved TB crammed into a tiny cubicle roughly the size of a 1-bedroom apartment, and that includes the kitchen!
The seating is so cramped, I'm surprised they pass fire code, the place smells mildly of stale urine which I assume comes from the bathroom, and for some strange reason, four *security cameras* constantly monitor this whole mess in an upscale Evanston spot near Northwestern as if every other hapless schmo intends to rob them!
DESPITE all this, they still somehow manage to churn out recognizable Taco Bell comfort food. Â That is the solitary reason they avoided being branded with a single star, which in itself is fairly sad.
This is a decent Taco Bell. Â It's open until 11:00, which is a plus for this suburban downtown (ugh, suburbs). Â I don't particularly like having to crawl around people because the establishment is too small for me to find a comfortable place to stand while waiting for my food, especially during the more crowded hours, but that's a minor qualm. Â If you're looking for cheap eats, go here.
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